Showing posts with label hymns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hymns. Show all posts

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Sing all hell

Today in church we sang the hymn "We'll Sing All Hail To Jesus' Name," which is a hymn I really love. However here in Utah we usually pronounce 'ai' the same as a soft e. Thus the following words usually sound the same: hail/hell, fail/fell, sail/sell and whale/well. So I have to try to suppress a smile everything we sing that first line. It's also very noticeable because the second verse actually has a 'hell' in it.

Regional accents and and unique speech patterns are always fascinating, and I don't see that we should change them. I'd like to thing that those details make life more interesting and I hope I didn't spoil that hymn for anyone.